I have been considering making the jump to Amazon, specially working out of their Tokyo office. Until they told me that only give 6 days PTO year, i.e. 3 vacation and 3 sick days. I was like... WTF, I get 30 now. Total deal breaker. I enjoy my work, but this is ridiculous.
Run away
Feeling like this is a troll. I know friends in Amazon Tokyo and they definitely have more than 6 days of PTO. Are you sure there isn’t some communication disconnect here? Also there is at least 1 day off every month in Japan plus golden week in the summer. That is 17 days of time off plus PTO.
It’s not a troll. The HR person told me this last night. Maybe there was a communication disconnect but I’m 99.9% positive that I heard her correctly.
Can vouch for this. It's 20 days (15 PTO + 5 personal days) + random holidays like golden and silver weeks.
That right... when someone says something the left wing liberal POS don’t agree with, the call you racist. How pathetic!! Why don’t you just explain that call someone racist.
Liberal? Lol, stop it snowflake. Keep calm and MAGA. I just inferred from the info available that you like Asian women. I didn't call you a racist. Geez, even the young conservatives are snowflakes these days. Why else would you want to work in Tokyo if you don't know the culture and language? Amirite? Anyway, sorry about your grammar. Either you are a tard white American (which you should get some play in Japan) or Indian (probably not so much -- I knew Japanese women who had fetishes for white, black, even Mexicans, but NEVER Indians. Weird, Japanese people love curry, but I guess not THAT kind of curry).
Join Indeed Japan if you want to be in Tokyo and don’t want to work life a typical Japanese salaryman. Unlimited PTO, great culture and above market salary.
How much is above market pay? I would be interested if they match bay area package
Few places in the entire world match Bay area package, why do you think we all came here??
As someone who has applied to a role there, it's actually about 35-40 days of combined vacation, PTO, and holidays. I don't remember the exact breakdown but I think it was about 15 holidays, 5 PTO days, and 12-20 vacation days depending on length of Amazon tenure. Altogether it's definitely more than what most companies in the US offer. At Amazon, PTO doesn't carryover between years and doesn't get paid for if you leave, while vacation does. Otherwise they act almost exactly the same. Indeed in Tokyo likewise has about 15 holidays but also has unlimited PTO. Due to Japanese law they are legally obligated to say you also have at least 2 weeks of vacation separate from the PTO. Availability of vacation has never been the issue for Japanese people, it's moreso the social pressure to not take long periods of time off as they see it as "unfair" for fellow co-workers to take their workload for an extended period of time. Unlike American work culture, people tend to make stronger friendships/connections with co-workers, so they feel more obligation toward them (just try to imagine asking 5 close friends to do all your work while you go on vacation for two weeks). With Amazon I've heard that teams with more international people don't feel subjected to this but the teams that are mostly Japanese do.
Side note: if you make a habit of calling out people for being left-wing for comments that don't have to be construed that way, you might not like living abroad. Much of the world is more liberal than America and don't value the confrontation culture that America has. Might be better to stick to using your existing vacation time for an extended trip than moving abroad.
Under Japanese law full time employees must be given 10 days of PTO per year in your first year, increasing over time to a max of 20 at year six. There may be huge pressure not to take all of them, but they're there.
Japanese people don’t believe in vacation. They work themselves to death and you can’t leave till your boss leaves.
I’m glad that I’ve learned this critical fact before accepting an offer.